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The Arnold Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$230k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$395kHealth$229kRecreation & Sports$211kEmployment$185kYouth Development$111kArts & Culture$103kHuman Services$88kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$3,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOBBY DODD COACH OF THE YEAR FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA$50,000
PEACHTREE FARM INC$35,000
PEACHTREE FARM INC$35,000
CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED$10,000
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION - SHARE$5,500
THE GEORGIA LIONS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION$5,000
NORTHSIDE ATHLETES FOUNDATION$5,000
DAUGHTERS AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S$5,000
BOBBY DODD MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT$4,900
NORTHSIDE ATHLETES FOUNDATION$3,200
MT VERNON 1972 CLUB$1,972
SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA$1,900
COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY CORPORATION$1,050
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOCO HILL COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%BUCKHEAD LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
TN
SC
OK
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 31 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
55

Total granted

$1.1M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+8%

Still filing today

61%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PF
    PEACHTREE FARM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $185k · revenue +148% · 35% of their budget
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +4%
  • BD
    BOBBY DODD CHARITIES FOUNDATION IN (ATTN JAMES TERRYPRESIDENT)
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +582%

Funded once

  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +16%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMFORT WOMEN MEMORIAL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SI
    Soccer In the Streets Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
2
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education
3
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
4
Piedmont Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
5
Au Medical Center Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Education
6
The Grady Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…

Philanthropy
7
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
8
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
9
Wellstar Health System Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Health
10
Au Medical Associates Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Health
11
Ada Forsyth Institute Inc

For more than 100 years, forsyth has been a leader in oral health research and pediatric dental care. today, we are grounded in a 3-pillared strategic plan focused on biological research, clinical service and public health outreach, and…

Philanthropy
12
Hospice of the Golden Isles Inc

The corporation is a medicare-certified hospice and at all times will be operated for the purpose of helping to meet the medical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients and their families and mobilizing other…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Amelia Island Plantation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIV OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA: $203,500 · OtherUNIV OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGAATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $95,000 · OtherATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRABOBBY DODD COACH OF THE YEAR FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherBOBBY DODD COACH OF THE YEAR FOUNDATIONATLANTA COMFORT WOMEN MEMORIAL FUND: $50,000 · OtherATLANTA COMFORT WOMEN MEMORIAL FUNDCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $25,000 · Other+57 more: $230,426 · Other+57 morePEACHTREE FARM: $185,000 · HealthPEACHTREE FARMDaughters Against Alzheimer's Inc: $17,500 · HealthDaughters Against A…GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · HealthLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $10,000 · Health+10 more: $19,250 · Health+10 moreEmory University: $125,000 · EducationEmory Univer…THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $14,182 · EducationTHE LOVETT S…Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $7,500 · Education+4 more: $11,600 · Education+4 moreBOBBY DODD CHARITIES FOUNDATION IN (ATTN JAMES TERRYPRESIDENT): $55,985 · Recreation & SportsSoccer In the Streets Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthside Athletes Foundation Inc: $14,000 · Recreation & SportsDENDY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $9,450 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $101,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $90,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $36,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$693,926Health$243,750Education$158,282Recreation & Sports$113,935Philanthropy$102,500Youth Development$92,000Crime & Legal$37,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEACHTREE FARM: $185,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetEmory University: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $101,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOBBY DODD CHARITIES FOUNDATION IN (ATTN JAMES TERRYPRESIDENT): $55,985 over 5y, 15% of budgetATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $36,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDaughters Against Alzheimer's Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $14,182 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthside Athletes Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetDENDY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKHEAD LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,900 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $9,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJULIES DREAM INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMELIA ISLAND PLANTATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST FLORIAN FIRE & BURN FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURKIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEATHER'S WAY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KYLE PEASE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Bend Hospice Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PEACHTREE FARM ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOBBY DODD CHARITIES FOUNDATION IN (ATTN JAMES TERRYPRESIDENT) ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
  • Who funds Soccer In the Streets Inc ↗
  • Who funds Daughters Against Alzheimer's Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Northside Athletes Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DENDY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKHEAD LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Historic Oakland Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS ↗
  • Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA28.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Mr and Mrs Quill Healey II Charitable Tr · The Glustrom Family Foundation Inc · Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation In

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arnold Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arnold Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to The Arnold Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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